The other horror is the ability to take up WInston like a piece of meat, grind him up like hamburger, and mold him into whatever shape they wanted.

If you apply enough pressure to a tool - well, the tool won't do anything you want. It might do something. It might just break.

No one ever said dictatorships end cleanly. The question is how far you can bend a real society made of real humans before you compromise its functional integrity.